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News Forum - Tourist in Chon Buri gets car damaged after parking in someone’s usual spot
I bet you are the life of the party. Not! I just happend to have a bunch of receipts and cash that day and the guy doesn't like foreigners. Wonder what he would think of you! -
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News Forum - Thai PM promises to accelerate Thailand’s electric vehicle future
Tell that to The people who glue themselves to the road ! Thanks for the reading between the lines comment. Another learning experience, free on Thethaiger. -
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News Forum - Thai PM promises to accelerate Thailand’s electric vehicle future
I agree. China has massive storage areas with 1,000's (perhaps x 100) of brand new EV's sitting, collecting dust due to their 'green' and 'share' schemes which provided subsidies to manufacturers. I was interested to note that one site held cars from 5 years ago and despite being brand new (with faded paint) they were worthless. Replacement battery cost more than the car value.- 1
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News Forum - More than 100 foreigners in Phuket swindled by visa agency
Agreed. There are other reasons why certain foreigners can no longer meet the financial requirements. When the Embassy letters were available to UK nationals, these stated the gross income from pensions. When the letters ceased and replaced with overseas monthly transfers to a Thai bank, only the nett income (after tax at source) could be transferred. In certain instances this meant some who, through no fault of their own, previously met the requirements with an Embassy letter, now found themselves 'short' using the overseas transfer method. Even the transfer fees made an impact on the actually THB received. No! There are existing reports of applications using the funds method falling just short of the requirements and being refused. The orders state a 'minimum' of 400/800K THB. No reason you can't have more funds deposited for an emergency or that rainy day. Personally witnessed this at my own IO, where an applicant was short by 4,000 BHT of meeting the 800K requirement. He'd just moved into the Province and argued his 796K more than met the 12 x 65K transfer method (which only totals 780K) and his application had been approved at his previous Immigration office for years showing the same amount of 796K. The IO told him to go back to his previous Immigration office if that was the case. Leniency was only shown in the year following the cessation of Embassy Income letters for UK, US, and Australian nationals using the income method. Immigration issued an order to that effect. Immigration leniency order for income method..pdf -
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News Forum - More than 100 foreigners in Phuket swindled by visa agency
Why do you think, they would ever point themselves on to the visa business opportunities in there Immi system? My guess, there are now meetings ongoing, immigration and agents, to find out, how big the damage really is. Usually, I think, they would just deport the people, quickly, because not in the country, no complain to follow up. Did we hear a lot about this scam , as follow up, from the Bangkok agents whom got caught, month ago? At least I did not read much about. Now with the flashlight from the "victims club" shining on it, they seem already have reacted : they won't deport people, who report themselves. That is news, isnt it? Perhaps the next step is to get them out without 20k fine and/or no blacklisting? I am really interested to read the outcome. So many official people have to be involved in this extension business, because it wouldn't be possible without, that I see big resistance coming in the way of any real investigation
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